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Tainted kernels are not supported. Kernel devs aren't spending time to fix bugs that come from a taint (uses blobs of code that are not open sourced) driver. Because the closed drivers can wreck all kinds of havoc and the kernel devs are helpless to fix the actual "source" of the problem.

There's been all kinds of ways for the kernel to detect tainted binaries. nVidia is notorious for trying to circumvent that detection so that engineers can sit there and blame the kernel for failures.

nVidia has been a massively shit company to the open source community. If I had a list of most anti FOSS companies to ever exist, nVidia would be right behind SCO, with like TiVo behind nVidia. I know it's hard but people who enjoy open source projects shouldn't do business with the company. But if you got to have a nVidia card so be it, but I cannot NOT recommend nVidia enough.

Doesn't even matter.

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.)

Republicans have shot his bills down countless times because he's mostly a prick to everyone. Nobody likes the guy and he's hardly useful in any capacity to the GOP outside of a warm body who can physically push a "yea" button when they tell him to push it.

He's like MTG who is from the close by 14th district except more irritating to listen to and less well put together. Pretty much exactly what you'd expect from rural Georgia yet just less pleasant in pretty much every aspect than most Republicans.

Not only that, guy is a well known coward. His usual response to difficult things is to do his best impression of Zoidberging out of the situation. Guy is worthless skin who'd run for cover if someone started popping popcorn.

After reading this article, Kirk has a very clearly superficial understanding of the 14th amendment. Some people here may have heard along the way something along the lines of "we're a collection of soverign states" or some bullshit like that. And that mostly true pre-14th amendment, the 14th amendment was the thing that changed that.

Remember, we fought a civil war and the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment are the ramifications of that war. The 13th answered, finally, the whole 3/5th comprimise thing that the Constitution indicated that Congress was supposed to fix sometime in 1808. Obviously "kicking the can" has been a tradition of Congress for quite some time.

provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article

And the 15th amendment grants Congress the power to slap State laws that try to enforce themselves via racial pretexts. Remember, Congress cannot directly legislate elections with the exceptions that are carved out in the Constitution. State's like to pass all manner of laws with justifications like "it's for the children" or whatever and the entire point of Courts looking at things Congress brings to bear is to check for "pretextual" arguments. Pretextual arguments being ones that "we say it's for this purpose, but in reality it is for this other purpose that we're not allowed to pass laws on".

Case in point, Tennessee's recent "Pride parade ban" law that was supposed to be "for the safety of the children" was tossed out as pretextual and no Federal Judge could find in the text how the law wouldn't be abused to rob people of their first amendment right and there were lots of "clues" that robbing a particular group of people of their free speech was the actual intent. Remember, we've got 200+ years of history of States saying one thing and actually doing the other, it's not a recent invention and something the Federal Courts have to always be on the look out for.

So that out of the way the 14th amendment changes fundamentally how the actual law is applied to people. Which is interesting that Kirk is all about changing it because it's literally the 14th Immunities clause that was used in McDonald v. City of Chicago to strengthen the 2nd amendment's right to gun ownership. So, for all the folks saying we need to review the 2nd if we're going to review the 14th, no worries, because that would become automatic in a review of the 14th since SCOTUS has now connected the two.

The 14th amendment is so litigated because it fundamentally changes how the US operates. It empowers the Federal government while depowers the States, when you take the context of the Civil War into account, the reason why Congress thought the 14th was a good idea becomes clearer.

So the vast litigation of the 14th is to ask the question, "How much power did the 14th hand over to the Federal government and remove from the States?" And we're still answering the multitude of questions coming from that. So Kirk wondering why so much gets answered by "the 14th Amendment!" is because he lacks understanding what the 14th does and why it was pitched in the first place.

There's always going to be a power struggle between Federal and State governments. For the first part of the US, deferrence was given to the States and it resulted in a war. So to fix that issue and hopefully prevent yet another war, that giving the States benefit of the doubt was "slightly" removed and penalities for those trying to "overthrow" the Federal system were explicitly enumerated. Because, those at the time understood, our form of government has this power struggle between Federal and State and that one civil war wouldn't be the end of that struggle.

Does the 14th answer all the problems with that struggle? No, of course not. But it puts the ball in the Federal government's hands first to solve it going forward. Because putting it first in the various States to solve....well it just didn't quite work out the way we had all hoped. And of course, over the course of history we've had various flavors of Judges who want to apply that wisdom to various cases to various degrees. The power struggle between Federal and State still exists, the entire point it to have an avenue to resolve it without a need for breaking out the horses and cannons.

Now I say all of this and let's all take a quick look around to see how well that's going. Yeap. That's why Judges matter. But back to the subject at hand, Kirk is trying to read the 14th without any context or understanding of application, which that's what we would expect from a fifth grader reading it for the first time. So we all should treat Kirk's opinion as such.

Previous studies have suggested that GFAP expression might decrease in early stages of some neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, or in younger patients with depression disorders.

So Alzheimer’s or depression, eh? So if I have chronic depression am I safe from Alzheimer’s or am I going to be depressed and constantly forgetting my medication?

All I needed to read was in the first paragraph.

Brave Software, the company behind the browser of the same name, was founded by Brendan Eich. He's best known as the creator of JavaScript from his days at Netscape Communications

I mean, JS is his baby that's all there needs to be said about the person's motivations.

Brave Software, the company behind the browser of the same name, was founded by Brendan Eich. He's best known as the creator of JavaScript from his days at Netscape Communications

Say no more fam.

A lot of lawyering is done automatically at this point. 30,000 emails at a page each email can be digested and have relevant information produced within a half hour.

Packages like Litify, Lawmatics, and Clio exist to move terabytes of data into five page summaries in about two to three hours if you have the right analyst working it.

Law offices complain like this to see if the judge will give them some extra time because extra time is extra time, but something like 10TB for complex business cases is pretty normal run of the mill stuff for some of the top tier analysis software.

Millions of pages just sounds big if you try doing by hand, but no law office at this level has some paralegal or team of paralegals trying to run through millions of Excel spreadsheets or emails. Law offices have long since left that whole error prone approach.

Given what’s been said about the data so far, even in the most complex situation, two weeks tops for any software product worth its salt to chew through all of it and have a solid foundation to what’s being presented.

Shit like this has been automated for like the last fifteen almost twenty years now. So many people think automation coming to kill all the jobs, man most people don’t even realize how many it’s already killed.

Hopeless idealist I am thinking people bitching about something would want to educate themselves about it.

But you’re right, it’s willful their spite. For way too many people they’ve got to hate something. Even if it’s unfounded.

Yeah this ain’t the defense they think it is and it’s crazy their attorneys are attempting it.

Believe it or not, people holding appointed office must follow the law first and not orders. Sometimes cited as a duty to disobey. It’s not always clear cut and if you go with this defense, boy you better hope it sticks with the judge.

Because if not, you’ve basically admitted guilt. And all it takes is one email with you CCed saying “I don’t think this is a good idea.” For a Judge to go, “So why didn’t you research that concern?”

Matches. They’re in a lake of gasoline and they using a defense of matches. Let’s see how that plays out.

Okay, honest question. What mod tools are lacking. If there's something needed, what is that thing or things?

I went over to the feature request page for Lemmy and I couldn't find anything massive in terms of requests for moderation tools that would have been sure fire ways to stop this particular event.

That said, there is over 400 open feature requests alone on Lemmy's github. I obviously couldn't go through every single one. But coming from the kbin side I'm just curious about our Lemmy brothers and sisters. It sounds dire and I'm woefully under informed on how bad it is.

Man. Fuck those guys!

— Zoom Video Communications, Inc CEO Eric Yuan (about Zoom Video Communications, Inc)

Have you ever micromanaged so hard that you micromanaged your way out of micromanaging?